Voting rights preclearance provision would be revived under new legislation

SC, Alabama would not be affected, sources say

2:33 PM,
Jan. 16, 2014

Written by

Mary Orndorff Troyan
| Washington bureau

WASHINGTON - A proposal to revive a Voting Rights Act provision that required certain states to prove their election procedures aren't discriminatory would not immediately affect Alabama and South Carolina, according to congressional sources.

U.S. Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., introduced legislation today with other lawmakers that would breathe new life into the 1965 voting law that was partially struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

In a case brought by Shelby County, Ala., the justices threw out the 48-year-old formula that determined ...